Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Wireless Access Available in the Library

Wireless computer access is now available on the first, second, and third floors of the Learning Resources Center and in the Levine Campus Library. It is also available throughout the quad (the area between and surrounding Giles, Kratt, ATC, Citizens Center, Belk, Van Every, and the Learning Resources Center) and in the IT building.

For more information about how wireless works, click here.

New Library Resources

The CPCC Libraries now have access to SpringerLink’s premier collection of scholarly and
peer-reviewed journals in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics. The site allows users to search and access full-text articles from the more than 1,000 journals.

For more information and helpful search tips, click here, or start searching now. NOTE: You can only use this resource on campus right now.

BookMarks is Back!

Are you ready for some summer reading fun, but you're not sure what to read? If that sounds like you, then join the CPCC Libraries at Levine Campus on May 11 to hear some recommendations for your summer reading pleasure. We will meet in Room 2432 from 12:00-1:30 pm. Bring your lunch - we'll provide drinks and dessert!

Click here to see the newsletter from the last BookMarks event.

Travels with CLICK


CLICK shared his hat with Reggie Villegas, Library Assistant at the Central Campus Library. Reggie is a Media Services genius who also supports North Carolina Higher Education. (Well, at least that what his shirt suggests.) Posted by Hello

Book of the Week

Like to read? Try this one!

Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz, in 1990. This is the first book of the Cairo Trilogy, a moving saga of the emotional struggles of three generations of a Cairo middle-class family in the first half of the twentieth century. Mahfouz, a Nobel winner, grips the readers’ interest with what critics describe as his “enchanting style and sweeping social tapestry”. The other two books in the triology are: Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street

New Leisure Reading Titles

New titles are available for leisure reading. Click here to read the listing.